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kevin peter Posted on Dec 20, 2006

Sansa e130 cant open

On tryin to switch on the player an error message pops up, "memory full connect to pc delete 4M songs for sansa system file" ,and after connecting the player the flash disk is recognised as a removamble disk,and i'm no able to detect anything. please do help,customer support not available in my country,had to burn a lot of hard earned money on this player.

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On not being able to detect any files when viewing Sansa in windows: try changing the format mode on the Sansa device - on mine I go to Settings and then USB and then changed it to MSC. I was then able to see the files in Windows and delete a bunch of them and then resynch in Windows Media Player.

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